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| Thursday 27 August 2009 |
You say underclass, we say white trash
Chris Grayling’s comparison of Moss Side with The Wire was silly, but his critics have vilified the working class, too.
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| Thursday 20 August 2009 |
A low level of educational ambition
While A-level grades may be rising, UK education remains as culturally impoverished as the public life that informs it.
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 |
The return of the aristocrats
Radical greens who encourage Prince Charles to butt into politics are setting history back hundreds of years.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
China’s factory girls: nobody’s victims
At last, a book on China’s growth that doesn’t paint migrant workers as pathetic victims but rather as aspirational individuals who now have far more choices than marrying the village idiot.
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| Wednesday 22 April 2009 |
In the thick of British warmongering
In the Loop avoids the lazy notion that Blair was Bush’s poodle and instead satirises Britain’s own war games.
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| Thursday 26 March 2009 |
Red Riding: is it
that grim up north?
Channel 4’s dramatisation of David Peace’s novels was compelling TV, but its grimness bordered on caricature.
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| Friday 6 February 2009 |
The hidden horrors of ‘austerity chic’
A recession could be good for us? The last time austerity ruled Britain, it increased ill-health and authoritarianism and dented community spirit.
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
‘A society out of joint’
Those calling for more austerity to combat consumer greed are historically illiterate and morally warped. The last time austerity ruled Britain, it increased hunger, ill-health and authoritarianism, and seriously harmed community spirit.
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| Wednesday 7 January 2009 |
New Year, new low
Seven days into 2008, the great and the good are ‘welcoming the credit crunch with open arms’ in the hope that it will correct our greed.
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| Tuesday 2 December 2008 |
Forcing Britain to sober up
The proposed ban on pub ‘happy hours’ is a metaphor for the government’s miserabilist disgust with fun.
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| Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
A revolt of the masses against the BBC?
The 40,000 complaints over the Brand/Ross affair express our instinctive outrage against aloof, patronising broadcasters.
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| Friday 24 October 2008 |
Not in her name
The sharp arguments and choice quotations in Burchill’s new book on hypocrisy – a scathing assault on chav-bashers and posh greens – suggest she’s been reading the most enlightened magazine in Britain: spiked.
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| Thursday 16 October 2008 |
A ticket to deride
Having a pop at the Fab Four for being ‘capitalists’ is a cover for slating the dynamism and materialism of the 1960s.
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| Friday 26 September 2008 |
The revolting world of middle class prejudice
A new ‘protesters’ handbook’ is about as rebellious as the newspaper that published it: the Guardian.
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| Monday 22 September 2008 |
How the culture wars killed free expression
Christopher Shinn, the writer of new political play Now or Later, explains how campus censorship strangles debate.
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| Thursday 4 September 2008 |
New Labour’s crime- tinted spectacles
It’s a bit rich for a government that has screwed up the economy to fret about social atavism during a recession.
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| Friday 29 August 2008 |
The revolting world of middle-class prejudice
In deriding mass party politics, attacking mums who use disposable nappies and slagging off thick cab drivers, a new ‘protesters’ handbook’ is about as rebellious as the newspaper that published it: the Guardian.
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| Tuesday 19 August 2008 |
Blaming affluence for crime? That’s a bit rich
David Lammy’s ‘explanation’ for the teenage stabbings in London is a pointed attack on aspiration and prosperity.
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| Thursday 24 July 2008 |
Who gives a folk about folk music?
In the run-up to a live London debate, Neil Davenport traces beardy singers’ romanticisation of the rural past and distaste for the urban present.
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| Monday 30 June 2008 |
Recession? Bring it on!
In the name of ‘saving the planet’, many in the chattering classes are praying for an economic slump.
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